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Siraj Syed

Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 
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Midway, Review: Exactly • Nov 08, 2019 at 03:06 PM
by Siraj Syed

Midway, Review: Exactly When you make a war movie, based on facts, you might be motivated to give a slightly balanced view of events, for every country that goes to war has its reasons and its...

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roland emmerich
Wes Tooke
Jack Smight
World War II
Charlton Heston
Henry Fonda
Glenn Ford
Cliff Robertson
Ed Skrein
Coral Sea
hawaii
Chuichi Nagumo
Edwin T. Layton
Yamamoto
Nobutake Kondo
Soryu
japan
Japanese
Patrick Wilson
Luke Evans
Dunkirk
Pearl Harbor
Toshiro Mifune
John Ford
aaron eckhart
Nick Jonas
Mandy Moore
Dennis Quaid
woody harrelson
cinematography
Robby Baumgartner
Adam Wolfe
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Prithvi Festival 2019, Review—Ek Natak Aisa Bhi: Beggars can be choosers • Nov 08, 2019 at 07:43 AM
by Siraj Syed

Prithvi Festival 2019, Review—Ek Natak Aisa Bhi: Beggars can be choosers Begging is an art, as has been repeatedly proven by reports of fortunes being discovered after the death of certain beggars...

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Shashi Bhushan Chaturvedi
Yasir Ifitikahar Khan
Rangshila Theatre Group
talaaq
Errol Rodrigues
Monika Mishra
Vandana Bhushan
Kush Jobanputra
Kavi Kumar
Anurag Sengupta
Ankit Bakaya
Pankaj Dixit
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Prithvi Festival 2019: Untitled 1, Review--Poison, its forms, uses and doses • Nov 08, 2019 at 06:08 AM
by Siraj Syed

Prithvi Festival 2019: Untitled 1, Review--Poison, its forms, uses and doses As a Big Brother is Watching state, the concept was explored by George Orwell in 1948. He called it ‘1984’, by merely...

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Danish Hussain
Annie Zaidi
Kitu Gidwani
Hoshruba Repertory
Abhishek Saha
Nishanthi Evani
Ruchita Tahiliani
Denzil Smith
Crossword Book Award
George Orwell
dastango
1984
Big Brother
authoritarian
Dhanya Pailo
totalitarian
CCTV
Socrates
Lord Shiva
Maurya
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Hellaro, Review: Say Hello to Hellaro • Nov 08, 2019 at 02:43 PM
by Siraj Syed

by Siraj Syed Curiosity about the film has been rather high, considering it won the Best Feature Film at the National Film Awards, being the first Gujarati language film ever to bag the honour, with...

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Aakash Zala
Abhishek Shah
Arjaav Trived
Denisha Gumra
Ekta Bachwani
i Brinda Nayak/Trivedi
i Shradhdha Dangar
Jagruti Thakor
Jayesh More
Kamini Panchal
Kamlesh Parmar
Kaushumbhi Bhatt
Kishan Gadhvi
Maulik Nayak
Mehul Surti
Niilam Panchal
Nilesh Parmar
Prapti Mehta
Prateek Gupta
Rajan Thakar
Riddhi Yadav
Sachi Joshi
Saumya Joshi
Shailesh Prajapat
Swati Dave
Tarjanee Bhadla
Tejal Panchasara
Tribhuvan Babu Sadineni
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Last Christmas, Review: Rom-com gone tragi-com • Nov 06, 2019 at 07:21 PM
by Siraj Syed

Last Christmas, Review: Rom-com gone tragi-com A film that is titled Last Christmas could work its title two ways, either as the last Christmas of someone who is not going to see another one, or as...

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emma thompson
Greg Wise
Byrony Kimmings
Yugoslavia
George Michael
Boris Isakovic
Wham!
Abba
Emilia Clarke
Henry Golding
Michelle Yeoh
Lydia Leonard
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